Predictors of disfluency markers in first language attrition
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1 Predictors of disfluency markers in first language attrition Ingemarie Donker
2 First of all: Many thanks to Bregtje Seton for the data!!
3 Good Ol Charlie
4 The plan for the coming 30 minutes L1 Attrition & Disfluencies Some Variables The Experiments The Data How to go about analyzing it Finding The Right Model Finally, The Results What we may conclude
5 L1 Attrition During the acquisition of another language, the native language is not necessarily stable as it is perhaps being used less and may also be influenced by the addition of another language. This process is called first language attrition and is especially true for someone who changes their language environment and becomes dominant in a second language (L2).
6 Disfluency L1 attrition can manifest itself in different forms, but it is assumed that it affects lexical access more than other aspects of language (Schmid & Jarvis, 2014; Schmid & Köpke, 2009) If the language becomes less accessible, this could be a cause for disfluent speech, because it takes more time to plan and produce.
7 Disfluency Markers Disfluency types as categorized by Levelt (1983) Appropriateness Repairs: per 1000 words (A1000) Error repairs: per 1000 words (E1000) Difference Repairs: per 1000 words (DR1000) Isolated Filled Pauses: per 1000 words (IFP1000) Repetitions: per 1000 words (R1000)
8 Research Questions Is there a difference between Attriters and Native Speakers (NSs) on how many disfluencies they have in their spontaneous speech? If so, are the factors of AoE, LoR, attitude, L1 use, working memory, and L1 proficiency relevant predictors that play a role in this process? In general, is there an influence of the number of errors people make on the number of disfluencies, and is there an influence of lexical diversity on the number of disfluencies?
9 Hypotheses AoE: older when migrating = less disfluencies LoR: longer stay = more disfluencies L1 Use: more use = less disfluencies L1 Motivation: more positive = less disfluencies L1 proficiency: more proficient = less disfluencies Errors: more errors = more disfluencies Lexical Diversity: more diverse = less disfluencies
10 Background Variables (1) General & Working Memory Age: age at testing AoE: Age of emigration (only for attriters) LoR: Length of residence (only for attriters) Gender Location: location of testing (Chicago (CH), London (LD), Toronto (TO), Groningen (GR), or Leiden (LE)) N2backdp: the dprime score on a working memory nback task
11 Proficiency & Use Background Variables (2) HolProf: the holistic proficiency of the participant as rated by three independent raters (icc interrater reliability of 0.91) - total score out of 90 DuCtest: score on Dutch C-test - percentage EnCtest: score on English C-test (only for attriters) - percentage Use: average self-reported use of Dutch at home + work + elsewhere - percentage
12 Background Variables (3) Motivation & Errors & Lexical Diversity MotivationTotal: motivation to keep speaking Dutch + cling to culture+ return to Holland - percentage TotE1000: Total number of errors per 1000 words Guiraud: Number of Types divided by the Square Root of the Tokens: measure of lexical diversity. VOCD: the VOCD type token ratio as a measure of lexical diversity in the retellings
13 Participants Controls (n=27) Attriters (n=54) Age 47 (18 68) 47 (19-69) Age of Emigration - 24 (5-42) Length of Residence - 28 (5-56)
14 Methodology Free speech data were elicited by the Charlie Chaplin film retelling task (Schmid & Beers Fägersten, 2010) Orthographic transcription in CHAT format Coding of different types of disfluency markers according to CHILDES coding standards General linear mixed-effects model using the package glmmadmb in R (data treated according to negative binomial distribution)
15 Why Mixed-Effects? The method is relatively easy and does not require a balanced design Mixed-effects models are robust to missing data Difference between fixed-effect (e.g. word category) and random-effect (e.g. subject) factors Makes the regression formula as precise as possible for every individual observation in our random effects, so allows specific models for every observation and for every subject
16 Specific Model Fixed-effects: count data on the different disfluencies, with every participants having five different scores on the different disfluency types plus all the other predictor variables Random-effects: participant tested for random slopes and random intercepts of participant and group with Disfluency Type
17 Procedure/Choices Summary of the background variables of the native control group and the attriters (plots, tables, histograms, boxplots, density, Wilcoxon rank sum tests, Shapiro-Wilk normality tests) Center numerical predictors Check correlating predictor variables (Spearman) age correlates strongly with LoR
18 Normal Distribution The different disfluency measures are all skewed to the right. Some measures are good with a simple log transformation, but the ones that contain zero's get a bimodal distibution with a log1p.
19 Visually
20 Poisson vs Negative Binomials Most of these variables show a distribution that is more similar to a Poisson distribution. Count data where the maximum possible counts is unknown, so do glmers with Poisson or Negative Binomials, where each participant has 5 different count values for each different Disfluency Type.
21 Poisson vs Binomial Because there is quite some overdispersion, a Negative Binomial Model is better than Poisson
22 Model building (1) Group and Disfluency Type were added to the model first and at this point there was a significant effect of group, the attriters having more disfluencies than the native speaker control group
23
24 Model Building (2) Add variables to the statistical model: Attriter-specific measures: Age of Emigration (AoE) Length of Residence (LoR) Attitude/Motivation L1 Use.
25 Results (1) Difference between attriters and NSs disappears after other factors included, so no extra group difference The attriter-specific variables: not a very strong effect on the number of disfluencies: LoR: higher LoR = more error repairs Interaction Motivation with AoE: lower AoE = higher role of motivation in number disfluencies here, higher motivation = less disfluencies
26 Model Building (3) Other variables of interest: L1 Holistic proficiency C-test scores Total number of errors (accuracy) Guiraud (complexity) Working Memory
27 Results (2) L1 Holistic proficiency (only predictor of number of disfluencies for NSs, not attriters) higher rating HP = less disfluencies C-test: higher C-test score = more disfluencies Complexity (only significant for NSs): higher lexical diversity = less disfluencies Accuracy: more errors = more disfluencies
28 Model Building Add predictors and compare models, if t>2 then the new model is significantly better Number of models compared: too many to count Final model: summary(m3e <- glmmadmb(disfluencyscore ~ DisfluencyType + DisfluencyType:Group + IsAttriters:cMotivationTotal:cAoE + IsAttriters:cLoR:IsE ctote cholprof:isnatives + cguiraud:isnatives + cductest (1 Participant), data=datlong, family='nbinom'))
29 Conclusion (1) Attriter-specific factors did not come out as very strong predictors of disfluent speech, however: LoR seemed to influence the number of error repairs Attitude and motivation seemed to play a role for younger attriters on the disfluencies in general.
30 Conclusion (2) Holistic proficiency only has an effect for the native control group C-test scores have a positive effect on the disfluencies Accuracy (total number of errors) is also significantly related to the number of disfluencies Complexity only has an effect for NSs
31 General conclusion Absence of a link between the number of disfluencies in the attriters and the more lexically diverse vocabulary use or in this group signifies a clear problem of lexical access and not of language loss. The attriters are able to eventually access their lexical items, but in order to do this they suffer more from disfluent speech.
32 Conclusion MM A complicated design with many variables can best be modeled with a mixed effects regression model, which can give more information about the combined origin of the disfluencies Disfluencies and the background variables not treated by themselves and therefore do not cause a problem of multiple comparisons
33 Thank you!
34 Some References Levelt, W. J. M. (1983). Monitoring and self-repair in speech. Cognition, 14, Schmid, M. S., & Jarvis, S. (2014). Lexical first language attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(4), Schmid, M. S., & Köpke, B. (2009). L1 attrition and the mental lexicon. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches (pp ). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
35 Discussion Overdispersion: Poisson or Negative Binomial Model? Two models are just as good, but one has an extra significant predictor: okay to choose that one? Higher C-test score = more disfluencies what does this test measure?
36 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(> z ) DisfluencyTypeA < 2e-16 *** DisfluencyTypeE * DisfluencyTypeDR e-07 *** DisfluencyTypeIFP < 2e-16 *** DisfluencyTypeR < 2e-16 *** ctote *** cductest * DisfluencyTypeA1000:Groupattriters DisfluencyTypeE1000:Groupattriters DisfluencyTypeDR1000:Groupattriters DisfluencyTypeIFP1000:Groupattriters DisfluencyTypeR1000:Groupattriters cholprof:isnatives ** IsNatives:cGuiraud ** IsAttriters:cMotivationTotal:cAoE * IsAttriters:cLoR:IsE **
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